US-Israel deal stalled again... And the most needed fighter jets do not arrive..

[glory2god]

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=198421

'US, Israel to announce failure of freeze deal'
By JPOST.COM STAFF 
12/07/2010 21:22


Channel Two reports sides have come to a dead end in negotiations for Israel to renew moratorium on West Bank settlement building in exchange for US benefits package.
Talkbacks (6)   The US and Israel will announce on Tuesday night that negotiations to renew the moratorium on building in West Bank settlements have failed, Channel Two reported.

According to the report,  Israel will not receive F-35 fighter jets or other benefits from the US in exchange for a freeze, and peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will, in the mean time, not be renewed.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that a deal was never reached with the United States on a renewed settlement freeze because the US is preoccupied with the mass of documents being released by WikiLeaks.

Barak said, "At the moment, it has been completely halted" because of what he called a loss of American attention and concentration, saying they were "very busy with North Korea and the WikiLeaks releases."
 
The defense minister added that the "understandings the prime minister [Binyamin Netanyahu] reached [with US Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton were a gentleman's agreement and not finalized." He continued, "The US now needs to get congressional approval [for the deal]."

Netanyahu met with Clinton in New York last month in a marathon session to find a way to renew peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which have been stalled for several months since a 10-month settlement freeze expired. The Palestinians have refused to return to the negotiating table until Israel reinstates a West Bank building moratorium.

Netanyahu and Clinton reportedly reached an agreement whereby Israel would institute another three-month freeze in exchange for a package of incentives, including 20 F35 advanced fighter planes. Israel has delayed a security cabinet vote on the freeze pending US delivery of written assurances of the understandings agreed upon.

The letter has not yet arrived.

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Are the United States so "preocupied" over Wikileaks?  Really?  Our President was not preocupied to play basketball --and get a lip cut in the process.

 

[Ruth Ann]

Maybe Assange and the wiki leaks were a God thing.

I hate seeing Israel bend to Hamas's and Obama's demands.

[glory2god]

Maybe Assange and the wiki leaks were a God thing.

I hate seeing Israel bend to Hamas's and Obama's demands.

The wiki leaks issue certainly has shown how nonchalant this Administration is to assert its position against possible threats to the US, among other things.   

We know nothing Israel could ever do, except ceasing to exist, will placate the Arab's position --voiced more loudly by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.  That same sand has been trilled for years.  Thus, it petrifies me that Obama's policy is leaving Israel almost no choice but concede, or stand absolutely alone. 

Perhaps it would do this Administration (and any future one) good to remember Gen 12:3 and Isa 54:17?

At any rate, we are living in interesting times....

[olivet]

The deal is Israel will halt West Bank building and political and militant Islam will not give Israel the right to exist.

[glory2god]

Yep, Olivet.  I'm afraid you are very much right.  What concerns me the most is the deal the USA is cutting with Saudi Arabia, selling them fighter jets.  What say you?

On a personal note, thank you for gathering all the information you post daily.  I just finished reading the one on NWO conspiracies.  Excellent!  Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your very informative threads. 

[Ruth Ann]

See her crown above her avatar, Glory?

Olivet is our Pond Princess!

[glory2god]

See her crown above her avatar, Glory?

Olivet is our Pond Princess!

Aha! Crown well deserved.